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darkprince45 posted...

News at 10: cops are human beings that are wrong too

Doesnt apply to this. Subject was called in and officers observed it

It applies due to the circumstances.

These are ruled unlawful because cops detained people for stupid reasons like a phonecall saying a dude was a cocaine dealer.

The police received an anonymous tip that the defendant was a cocaine dealer and that he lived at a particular location.

And here there was a tip that the dude was driving recklessly.

They had no right to detain him, on his own property no less. Call it a terry stop if you want, that doesn't make it lawful as seen in these case law excerpts.